Shangri-La

English 2017 December 20 thumb|Napa Lake, a seasonal plateau lake in Shangri-La City in Yunnan, China, that is dry in the autumn and winter months. Formerly known as Zhongdian, Shangri-La City was renamed on 17 December 2001 after the fictional land in James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon to promote tourism in the area. Alternative forms en Shangri-la Etymology From a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton (1900–1954): see the quotation below. A en bo - origin has been suggested, from bo ཞང རི ལ name of a district of Ü-Tsang mountain pass 1, therefore meaning "Mountain Pass of Zhang District". Pronunciation en /ˌʃæŋɡɹɪˈlɑː/ en en-au-Shangri-La.ogg AU en ɑː 3 en Shan gri-La Noun 1 en utopian place A place or land of complete bliss, delight, and peace, especially one seen as an escape from ordinary life; a paradise. en Xanadu<id:utopian place> paradise utopia heaven en James Hilton Lost Horizon London Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London September 1933 October and November 1933 (2nd printing) 64 https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.207736/2015.207736.Lost-Harizon#page/n68/mode/1up/ 803088316 He spoke a kind of Chinese that I don't understand very well, but I think he said something about a lamasery near here—along the valley, I gathered—where we could get food and shelter. Shangri-La, he called it. La is Tibetan for mountain-pass. He was most emphatic that we should go there. on en Jean Franco Poetry as a Mode of Existence César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence Cambridge w:Cambridge University Press 1976 978-0-521-21063-8 1st paperback Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=TyGOQg760NAC&pg=PA2 978-0-521-21063-8 The length of the journey gives a measure of the anachronism, which as [César] Vallejo said in one of his stories made the hill town a Shangri-La, forgotten by the rest of Peru. en Clive S. Thomas Understanding Interest Group Activity in the American States D. K. Adams Studies in US Politics Manchester; New York, N.Y. w:Manchester University Press 1989 182 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZH67AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA182 978-0-7190-2584-6 With the fragmented policy-making system which results, America is a Shangri-La for interest groups and lobbyists. en Grant Naylor [i.e., Rob Grant and Doug Naylor] Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers London w:Penguin Books 1989 978-0-14-012437-8 He couldn't believe it when he'd discovered there actually was a town called Bedford Falls. It seemed like fans of the film had all collected there to live out their lives in a self-created 1940s American Shangri-la. en Otto von Stroheim Introduction Tiki Art Now!: A Volcanic Eruption of Art San Francisco, Calif. Last Gasp of San Francisco; The Shooting Gallery 2004 8 https://books.google.com/books?id=udjOlZfvUOQC&pg=PP14 978-0-86719-627-6 Tiki Style was forged in the business of bars and restaurants and celebrated in backyard luaus and at theme parks like Disneyland and roadside attractions such as Tiki Gardens. As these ersatz Shangri-las competed to outdo each other with the latest tropical-inspired styles, the popularity of the neighborhood Tiki lounge soared. en J. William Costerton Replacement of Acute Planctonic by Chronic Biofilm Diseases Christina Eckey The Biofilm Primer Berlin; Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 2007 10.1007/b136878 978-3-540-68021-5 1863-9607 The human species was lucky, because the only time in the development of bacterial populations when diversity is sacrificed for reproductive expediency is during the exponential burst of growth that follows their discovery of an unprotected ecosystem. The two notable instances in which bacteria find these Shangri Las are in test tubes filled with fresh media and in naive animals that have not seen these particular bacteria in recent immunological memory. en Zhang Longxi In Search of a Land of Happiness: Utopia and Its Discontents From Comparison to World Literature SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press 2015 103 https://books.google.com/books?id=tyWXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 978-1-4384-5471-9 The desire for a better life in a better place, for a land of happiness, is perhaps one of the most basic human desires that has found many expressions in various forms—a paradise, a Golden Age, a Shangri-La, an ideal society or—generically speaking—a utopia. weekend w:Janan Ganesh 2025-06-21 How Los Angeles made the modern world Life & Arts 22 Brian Wilson made the ultimate departure last week: his death all the more poignant because he fixed LA in the world's mind as the cloudless Shangri-La it isn't. en pleasure palace An opulent building or resort that provides entertainment or luxurious living. en pleasure palace pleasuredome Xanadu<id:pleasure palace> en 1975 Mason Jack Van Cleave Park Helen The Making of Marin (1850-1975) North Shore Books 111 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Making_of_Marin_1850_1975/ovs8AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22built+a+shangri-la%22&dq=%22built+a+shangri-la%22&printsec=frontcover Well-known architects of the day, like Willis Polk, Albert Farr and Julia Morgan, designed some of the early mansions. Gordon Blanding, millionaire patron of the arts, bought the island's southern tip and built a Shangri La for his San Francisco friends. Descendants ja - 1 ^シャングリラ cmn 香格里拉 1 vi Hương Cách Lý Lạp Hương Cách Lí Lạp 1 Translations a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace Arabic: ar شَانْغْرِيلَا f šanḡrilā, ar شَانْغْرِيلَا f šangrilā Burmese: my ရှန်ဂရီလာ Catalan: ca Xangri-La Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 香格里拉 Xiānggélǐlā, cmn 世外桃源 shìwàitáoyuán Esperanto: eo Ŝangrilao Finnish: fi Shangri-La French: fr Shangri-La m Hungarian: hu Sangrila Japanese: ja シャングリラ Shangurira Korean: ko ^샹그릴라 Mongolian: mn Шангри-Ла Polish: pl Shangri-La n Portuguese: pt Xangrilá m, pt Xangri-lá m Russian: ru Шангри-Ла́ f Ukrainian: uk Шанґрі-Ла Vietnamese: vi cõi bồng lai, vi chốn bồng lai, vi Hương Cách Lý Lạp, vi Hương Cách Lí Lạp Proper noun 1 en county-level city autonomous prefecture/Diqing p/Yunnan c/China. en Xianggelila en 2019 Jundan Zhang Tourism and environmental subjectivities in the Anthropocene: observations from Niru Village, Southwest China Journal of Sustainable Tourism https://web.archive.org/web/20210812174305/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2018.1435671 27 4 488–502 https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1435671 This article therefore draws attention to local villagers and tourists who took part in my 2013 ethnographic fieldwork in Niru Village, Shangri-La City, Southwest China. en June 18, 2020 Shangri-La city to further combine ecological, economic benefits China Daily https://web.archive.org/web/20200624052626/https://english.mee.gov.cn/News_service/media_news/202006/t20200618_785038.shtml https://english.mee.gov.cn/News_service/media_news/202006/t20200618_785038.shtml The popular tourist city of Shangri-La will complete its new round of afforestation projects, with a total of 1.1 million trees planted by the end of 2020. en 2023 Peng Nie; Jiazhou Yao; Namgyal Tashi Mapping the linguistic landscape from a multi-factor perspective: the case of a multi-ethnolinguistic city in China International Journal of Multilingualism https://web.archive.org/web/20261001083654/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790718.2021.1898620 20 2 231–249 https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2021.1898620 This paper explores the linguistic landscape (LL) of a multi-ethnolinguistic city in China, namely Shangri-La City, where Tibetan, Han (Mandarin Chinese), English and several other minority languages are used. en US politics en Camp David. 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